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[mppmaraudergirl]

ARROGANT/PLAYER JAMES GIVES ME LIFE !!!! why isn't this trope done enough????

i think chasing life just replaced TRN as my favourite fic of yours omg

Ha! I have Thoughts on this.

In Ye Old Fandom (think early aughts), player James was rampant. James and Sirius shagged their way through the entire school in fics (excluding, of course, the waspish, goody-two-shoes prude Lily Evans who screeched or raised her nose at even the tiniest glance a boy sent her way—why did we ever ship these two in those days?? But I digress.).

Thankfully we've evolved past that and nowadays James is often so hung up on Lily that no other girls exist (an overcorrection? idk). Or he's a pining fool throughout. (I'm generalizing here based on what I've consumed, in any case. Obviously that's not always the case.)

For Chasing Life, I have created an AU that I find relatively believable to show this level of arrogance in James (a non-Voldemort world, a not-forced-to-fight-a-war-at-seventeen world, a world where he's talented enough to play Quidditch professionally). And at the end of the day, I hope to show you (and hope you'll agree by the end) that at the core, the loyal, giving, clever, trustworthy, mischievous James is still there.

Generally speaking, the "womanizer/player" trope scares me. I have kids and in no way do I want to advocate for the toxicity often portrayed in those types of dynamics in real life or the "universes" I create. So I'm aiming to maintain the level of fun this fic is without crossing the line into toxicity. Let's hope for the best. 👍🏻

(Also, no hate intended but wow wow wow! TRN unseated is a bit surprising for me! Just... yeah!)

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